End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days, #3)

by Susan Ee

“And the children?” There’s no hope in Thermo’s voice when he asks this. Raffe sighs. “You were right. I left to hunt ‘the nephilim monsters’ only to find they were just children. Gabriel said the spawn of an angel and a Daughter of Man would grow into a monster. I didn’t want to kill them while they were still harmless, so I waited. And waited. Generation after generation, to root out the evil that I’d been warned about.” He shakes his head. “But none came.

Wait what?

When this is all over, I never want another exciting moment in my life ever again.

“There sure was a lot of fuss over a job that no one wants.” “Oh, lots of angels want the job, just not the ones who should have it. Power is best held by the ones who don’t want it.”